Word Origin Summary

Universel is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. universalFrenchinherited from
2. ūniversālisLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• universala

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• üniversel

  Turkish · borrowed from

• universal

  Romanian · borrowed from

• universell

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• inivèsèl

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• universell

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

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